Friday, November 8, 2013

Ted Cruz's Dad Declares God Is Pro Death Penalty

Ted Cruz's Dad Declares God Is Pro Death Penalty

Evangelical pastor Rafael Cruz, father of shutdown
dramatist Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), served up a stemwinder this week,
laying out God’s positions on the death penalty, guns in schools, gay
marriage, communism and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), all
in an impassioned 45 minutes.
The Cuban-American creationist
quoted Bible verses that he said described God’s hardline position on
capital punishment. “You know, the Bible is so clear," he said. "Go to
Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated
in Genesis chapter nine ... God ordains the death penalty!”
He brushed off “all these people that want to come home with their
violins to tell you, ‘Oh, we need to show mercy,'" declaring that the
death penalty rightly shows no mercy.
On the subject of mass shootings on school campuses, Cruz blamed
Democrats who have lobbied for gun control in response to the
atrocities.
“Look at all the massacres that we’ve had in the last year or two
that the left is using to try to tell us that we need to control guns.
Every one of those was in a gun-free zone,” Cruz said, amid exclamations
of “Amen!” and “Exactly!” from the audience.
“You want to eliminate school massacres? Have the teachers carry
[guns]! … How stupid can you be?” Cruz said. An audience member
answered, “It’s doggone stupid!”
Cruz also spoke at length against same-sex marriage, arguing, “It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”
He said the legalization of gay marriage would lead to a deluge of hate speech claims.
“After this homosexual marriage law gets passed, do you know what the
next thing that is coming very soon is? ... Hate speech,” Cruz said.
“You preach Romans chapter one in your church, you’re going to be called
before a court for hate speech. Now what are you gonna do? Are you
going to take that page and cut it out of your Bible? Because it’s not
politically correct? So it’s going to come to a head.”
More broadly, the senator's father warned that “social justice very
quickly leads to socialism and ultimately communism.” He squeezed in a
jab at the National Rifle Association's past support for the Senate majority leader, asking, “How can you call yourself righteous and go endorse Harry Reid?”
Cruz attacked President Barack Obama as a “king” and a “tyrant,” before closing with “God bless you all.”
The event at which Cruz spoke was sponsored by the gun rights advocacy group OK2A and the anti-government Tulsa 9.12 Project.